You have to lift the back of the bike without preloading the swing arm. If you have aftermarket rear sets you can lift the back of the bike using the swing arm lift then use car jack stands under the foot pegs to hold up the bike. I have heard of people flipping the foot pegs upside down to use the jack stand method. You can lift the back up using the rafters and ratcheting straps too. You may need to remove the tail fairings and hook to a solid part of the sub frame.
Changing the dogbones is easy. Take it apart and put it back together.
OK Thanks, here goes, I'm gonna use the jack stands under the foot pegs.
So basically my idea is to put the jack under the swing arm and keep it up whilst I remove the bolts, then I could let the swingarm come down a bit for the new one. Lets see how this goes!
I recall doing mine on the kickstand. I didn't even use a jack or rear stand. Just unbolted. Lifted the frame with my guns and had my wife insert the new dogbone.
Nope, sitting here reading through the forums this seems harder than the front forks, I just don't want to bolt it in the wrong spots, not sure where to do this, UGH!
Seriously? You're just replacing the doglink. So unbolt the 2 screw that connect the doglink to the trianglular thing and frame. Replace on doglink. Lift the frame to align with the triangle and insert screw. Torque to spec. Done.
^^^ This. I replaced my rear shock yesterday and had to remove the dogbones to do that... I did it with a crescent wrench, a 17mm an 19mm socket and two jack stands.
My guess is it only goes together ONE way. If you try to assemble it and it's not going, you're probably doing it wrong. I did some shock and linkage work on my 07 and 08 and it was pretty straight forward.
Can anyone tell me the torque specs for the bolts that connect the dogbones?
I am just doing the same to mine.. removing adjustable, going back to stock.
So from what I understand, I need to lift the rear of the bike without putting any weight on the swing arm, remove bolts, replace dogbones with oem, replace bolts, torque (to spec??) and lower the bike,.. done. Right?
Oh, ok.. so should I first loosen the bolts, while the weight is on the rearstand, then lift so the weight is OFF the swing arm, remove old dogbones, replace with OEM, put bolts back on hand tighten, then drop the bike back onto the rearstand (or onto the ground), and THEN torque the bolts to spec?
And my second issue: I tried looking in the manual to find the torque specs for these bolts, and can't seem to find them. I don't know the technical term for Dogbone. Can anyone please tell me the torque specs for the bolts that attach the dogbones?
I used blue locktite. The inside of the old one was kind of greasy (I used new bolts, so they were clean). I don't have any grease, but I thought I should put something on it. I thought about using chain lube, but ended up just putting a small amount of sewing machine oil on the bolts instead.
When I pushed the bolts through those little cylinders, a couple of these little soft orange colored pieces that looked like some sort of rubber or plastic, or it could have been stale built up grease? Reckon this might be a problem?
Oh, and there were no washers at all installed. Just the bolt that goes through the triangular piece and doggones, and onto the bolt on the other side. Is that right or should there be washers of some sort?
Thanks again
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